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The Pentagon has almost completed a study of how to shoot down hypersonic missiles. It's also developing new offensive weapons -- conventional, not nuclear -- whose deployment will become legal with the end of the INF Treaty.

The Pentagon's independent tester reports that F-35 readiness is stuck at 60 percent, while the A model's gun is unacceptably inaccurate.

'Now that they've completed the initial ground run, the team can finish its work to clear the aircraft for first flight,' said Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the Vertical Flight Society. 'Assuming the Defiant team doesn't find anything noteworthy from its ground testing, ...

'For far too long, Russia has violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with impunity,' a statement from the White House said. ...

WASHINGTON: The Navy signed a massive, $15.2 billion contract with Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding this evening for two more Ford-class aircraft carriers, hours after a Pentagon report listed a litany of problems with the ambitious program. ...

'Ultimately that is what this is all about, why I get up every morning, that's why AFC exists: to make sure, not today's soldier, but our kids and our grandkids have the core concepts, the organizational structures, and the capabilities they need to fight and win on a future battlefield,' Gen. ...

The Aachen Treaty is the fifth treaty signed in the city where Charlemagne was born and they have all shared a common thread of boosting European peace and integration. The first one, signed in 1668 inР’В Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle in French), put an end to the War of Devolution between France and Spain; ...

Democrats challenged President Trump over his freeze on US military exercises with South Korea, while Trump lashed out on social media against intelligence officials who questioned his achievements.

This year promises to be a year of big changes in how the Defense Department does Cyber -- and leaders are warning staffers that it's not going to be business as usual.

Shanahan spent much of his first formal (albeit off-camera) Pentagon pressroom briefing as SecDef emphasizing continuity with his ousted predecessor, Gen. Jim Mattis. He made a point of praising Mattis's National Defense Strategy, America's allies, ...

WASHINGTON: The Intelligence Community does not agree with President Trump that North Korea is 'no longer a nuclear threat. ...

Despite the Navy's misgivings over having dozens of its ships sailing in boxes hunting for missiles, plans remain in place for more Aegis-capable hulls, as well as new radars, and mobile missile defense batteries.

WASHINGTON: The Navy is looking to get out of the missile defense business, the service's top admiral said today, and the Pentagon's new missile defense review might give the service the off-ramp it has been looking for to stop sailing in circles waiting for ground-based missile launches. ...

AFA: The Air Force won't issue a Request For Information on possibleР’В Light Attack aircraft, originally scheduled to come out December, in favor of doing a lot more experiments, Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told reporters this morning. ...

President Trump is breaking with the past. He's arguing that Washington must cut its losses, withdraw its forces, climb out of the Middle Eastern and Afghan money pits, and acknowledge that Seoul (with U.S. backing) won the war on the Korean Peninsula. Washington hates him for doing these things, ...

WASHINGTON: At least a dozen major Army weapons programs face big decisions in 2019. The service will launch a competition for new armored vehicles; award development contracts for scout aircraftР’В and helicopter engines; conduct key tests of long-range missiles, anti-aircraft defenses, rifles, ...

Three major lines of effort will converge circa 2024, when a new breed of troops will man new kinds of combat units equipped with new technologies: talent & training, concepts & units, and money & modernization.

A new Army unit will hack and jam enemy networks and provide targeting data for both long-range missiles and missile defense.

PENTAGON: In his first day on the job, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan gathered civilian leaders of the military services to deliver a simple message: 'China, China, China.'

'Our new approach is really to prototype as much as we can to help us identify requirements, so our reach doesn't exceed our grasp,' Secretary Esper said. 'A good example is Future Vertical Lift: The prototyping has been exceptional.'